When Minh turned 30, I started compiling a bucket list of 40 things I wanted to accomplish before I turned 40. The timer started yestrday, when I turned 30 (Already? Where does the time go?). When it comes to lists, 40 is actually a bigger number than you think, but I’ve mixed it up with big and small goals in a variety of areas – travel, family, fitness, style, etc. Here goes:
The Bucket List: 40 before 40
- Run a marathon in under 4 hours
- Grow a victory garden
- Watch the sunrise over Machu Picchu
- Learn to take better photographs
- Have children
- Pose with a Moai head
- Summit Mount Whitney
- Dine at the French Laundry
- Hike Half Dome
- Conquer Yorkshire Three Peaks Challenge
- Throw a fancy dinner party
- Donate my hair (again)
- Write up a will
- Ride a gondola in Venice
- Watch all the AFI top 100 movies (no repeat watches required)
- Imagine the fairy tale life a Neuschwanstein Castle
- Read top 100 books from 2004 BBC The Big Read
- See the Northern Lights
- Ride in a hot air balloon
- Give stand-up paddleboarding (SUP) a try
- Participate in a progressive dinner party
- Go zorbing
- Finish Bucilla Christmas stockings for my family
- Learn to play Rhapsody in Blue on the piano
- Finish a Spartan Race
- Sew a dress for myself
- Sail to Catalina
- Cycle the Amsterdam canals
- Do 10 strict pull-ups
- Find the end of a rainbow
- Give raw denim a try
- Cycle from San Francisco to San Diego
- Dine in the dark
- Go whale watching
- Lay across four states at once
- Hike a volcano
- See Old Faithful
- Eat a spider (on purpose)
- Attend mass at St. Peter’s Basilica
- Watch a stage of the Tour de France
Hoping to accomplish all this and more in the next 10 years! Was there anything I missed that you think should have been included? What’s on your bucket list?
Think Tran 